The Secretary-General of Catholic Diocese of Yei Fr. Emmanuel Lodongo Sebit calls on all political leaders in the country to serve citizens not their own interests.
Radio Easter quoted him expressing that the Catholic Bishops of South Sudan call for servants in leadership to serve all people in families, communities and in the country, but not working for a specific group and oneself.
“The Catholic Bishops of South Sudan call on us a call to servant leadership, a style of leaders to serve the people, not to serve my own interest or the interest of my small clique, but the interest of the common good of all. We have to be servants in our leadership, servants in our families as father and mother, servants in our communities as elders and chiefs. Servants in our nation as governors and ministers or commissioners, servants in our country as president and so on. Not the servant who thinks of himself or herself first or thinks of the small clique of people who are supporting him, who are always the circle of his life”, Fr Lodongo elaborates.
The priest was explaining to the congregation of Christ the King Cathedral on Sunday in Yei, the pastoral message of South Catholic Bishops’ entitled “A Call to ‘Servant Leadership’ in our Nation”.